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Unelected Red Bankers aren't the only ones reeling over the reassessment letters that landed in their mailboxes in recent days. Mayor Pasquale Menna said he's peeved that the letters went out without his approval, and were written, he said, in...
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February 10th, 2007 @ 5pm
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The meter is still spinning out of control on winter heating bills, and now comes news from the state Board of Public Utilities that electricity users will get slammed with a 14.2-percent price increase in June, the Asbury Park Press...
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February 9th, 2007 @ 3pm
Skaters, ice boaters, ice yachters and those, (like us) who've simply yearned to walk on the great Navesink River: here's the latest from the North Shrewsbury Ice Boat and Yacht Club ice conditions iceline, as of about 5:50p Thursday. Part...
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February 9th, 2007 @ 10am
As expected, New Jersey Supreme Court Chief Justice James Zazzali's black robe came off at Brookdale Community College Thursday. And what was on display, in part, was the Rumson jurist's wit. “My wife said have a good day,” Zazzali told...
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February 9th, 2007 @ 7am
A 49-year-old Fair Haven woman was pulled from the Navesink last night after she fell through the river's ice in an effort to retrieve a wayward dog, the Asbury Park Press reports. Officer John Waltz responded to a report at...
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February 9th, 2007 @ 6am
Red Bank property owners: it's reassessment time. So prepare to find in your mail an innocuous looking white envelope from a company called Realty Appraisal Co. And brace yourselves. We here at redbankgreen got ours just minutes ago, showing a...
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February 8th, 2007 @ 12pm
To those familiar only with the crib notes of her biography, Nadine Goldsmith may be easy to misinterpret. A well-off Rumsonite, she was a fixture in charity-ball circles, and after she died of breast cancer in March, 2004 at age...
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February 8th, 2007 @ 3am
We're back in the game! After a dry spell (for us), three—count 'em—three 'Where' devotees identified last week's image. It shows a door on the Monmouth Street building that houses Fins & Feathers pet store and, upstairs, part of Buona...
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February 8th, 2007 @ 2am
At redbankgreen, we correct our mistakes and issue clarifications where warranted. Through an attorney, Aldo Gallelli, president of A.G. Electrical Contractors Inc., has pointed out an error in our January 9 article headlined "Pickets negotiate a fence." The article, about...
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February 7th, 2007 @ 7pm
Today's Asbury Park Press reports that the home of the North Shrewsbury Ice Boat and Yacht Club is close to winning state designation as an historic structure. The building is in Red Bank on the Navesink River (known as the...
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February 7th, 2007 @ 11am
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February 7th, 2007 @ 10am
Today's Asbury Park Press has a breathtaking recap of how Sea Bright firefighters rescued Debra Yuhasz from the Fountains Condominiums fire early Monday morning. The 47-year-old woman was lying unconscious on the balcony of her second-floor unit when Capt. Joseph...
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February 7th, 2007 @ 6am
Updating the item below... SeaStreak has now cancelled ALL boats to and from Highlands. From the carrier's latest email blast: Due to ice conditions SeaStreak will be making the following changes today's schedule: All service to and from Highlands will...
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February 6th, 2007 @ 1pm
... Seastreak starts c-c-c-cancelling ferry runs because of ice. Which is what they're doing t.-t-t-today. The following departures are cancelled, according to an email sent out at midmorning to subscribers: 11:45a from E. 34th Street & 12:00p from Pier 11...
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February 6th, 2007 @ 12pm
The Asbury Park Press is backing Councilman John Curley's push for a reduction in overtime parking fines in Red Bank from $38 to $25, a move some of the Democratic majority says will blow a $188,000 hole in the borough...
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February 6th, 2007 @ 7am
The badly burned victim of yesterday's spectacular Sea Bright fire was identified as 47-year-old Debra Yuhasz. Today's Press reports that she's in critical but stable condition at the St. Barnabas Burn Center in Livingston. At least 15 units at the...
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February 6th, 2007 @ 7am
Having "hit kind of a wall" in 2006, Red Bank-based Hovnanian Enterprises is being cautious about 2007, a company executive says in an interview in today's Star-Ledger. J. Larry Sorsby, HOV's chief financial officer, tells the Ledger's Judy DeHaven that...
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February 6th, 2007 @ 7am
Fair Haven's new borough administrator, hired last night by the Borough Council, is a 28-year-old woman with three years experience in municipal administration, today's Asbury Park Press reports. Mary Howell replaces Julie Horner-Kiezer, who left last month to become borough...
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February 6th, 2007 @ 7am
The Press is reporting the fire at the Fountains Condominiums complex is largely under control and that an unidentified woman who was badly burned was airlifted by helicopter to the St. Barnabas Burn Center in Livingston. The fire was reported...
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February 5th, 2007 @ 1pm
The Asbury Park Press reports that a fire at the Fountains Condominium Complex on 1340 Ocean Avenue continues to burn. From an update posted at 9:39a: SEA BRIGHT — A fire at 1340 Ocean Ave., at the Fountains Condominium Complex,...
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February 5th, 2007 @ 10am
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RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...